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Religion at work in globalised traditions : rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity in Tanzania
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ISBN: 1443858765 9781443858762 9781443854726 1443854727 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press,

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Why do traditions disappear? How is the disappearance of tradition also a vehicle for social change and re-inventions of practices and new traditions? Using case studies from one Sukuma area along the southern shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, global processes of how religions work in practice are analysed by focusing on rainmaking, witchcraft and Christianity. Traditionally, Sukuma society was culturally and cosmologically structured around the chief, the ancestors and rainmaking. Everyth...


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Cremation, Corpses and Cannibalism: Comparative Cosmologies and Centuries of Cosmic Consumption.
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ISBN: 1443891800 9781443891806 9781443881739 1443881732 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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